First NHS e-Referrals API by end of year
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is developing a set of open APIs for its NHS e-Referrals service, with plans to deliver the first interface by the end of the year.
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£55m to increase e-Referral uptake
NHS England has set aside £55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to 100% by 2018.
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NHS e-Referral Service fails to report
The NHS e-Referral Service is not producing any reports for users – nearly four months after go-live.
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E-Referral Service stabilised – then not
The new NHS e-Referral Service was running well on Tuesday afternoon, but has subsequently suffered another day of problems.
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Users unable to access E-Referrals
GPs and NHS trusts are unable to access the new NHS e-Referral Service just hours after it was launched, due to “technical difficulties”.
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E-Referral Service booked in for Monday
The NHS e-Referral Service will finally go live this Monday, replacing Choose and Book; but users shouldn’t expect major changes until later in the summer.
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Surrey CCG uses Medway to link referrals
Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group has gone live with System C’s Medway Proxima patient management system to provide a messaging interface for its GP referrals support service.
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E-referrals launch delayed
The go-live of the new NHS e-referral service has been pushed back from November to spring 2015.
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Enter the CCG: fall over a system error
Dr John Lockley discovers a potentially fatal system error in some hotel lighting; and vows to make sure that the same problems won’t turn up in the replacement for Choose and Book.
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